Nov 7, 2009

More sewing


First I want to thank you all for your nice comments on the scrappy quilt. It's not exactly my pattern or anything I was inspired by a quilt I had seen on creativechicks bogspot. I just loved hers and knew this would be a great way to use up some of my scraps. I got my top finished it just needs a strip of the white sewn across the top and bottom. Usually by the time I finish one I'm sick of looking at it but this went together so fast I still love it, LOL.
Remember this quilt. I don't have a pic of the finished top. It had a wide border of the red print. I was planning on quilting some of the tops I have finished this year. I was going to start with this one but it can't be found. We looked and looked for it. I searched high and low. Practically tore the place apart, but no quilt. After telling my daughter whom I had made this for, she came over thinking she would find it. I tried to tell her I went through everything 3 times it's just not here. She couldn't find it either and it broke her heart. I guess it somehow got thrown out when we moved. I always fold my tops to where the seams are on the out side, so it probably looked like a bunch of scraps just laying around. But you know how the story goes no one knows nothing. It's just gone, at least until we maybe one day come across it. In the meantime I start her a new quilt. I have another bundle of Tula Pink's Flutterby fabrics that are pretty similar that I had saved to make a braid quilt with. They are some of my favorites but I guess I'll use them to make her another top. I found one that I really love over on interchangableparts blog. She made it using Tula Pinks nest pattern. I really like how hers turned out. I also love the merry-go-round quilt she made. I'll have to give that a try one day.
So, I gave up my great idea of quilting all weekend and decided to go ahead and piece her a new top before I started quilting all these. I no longer have room for both my big tables set up at the same time so I have to either piece or quilt. My little EZquilter has to set up on a table and I just don't have room to keep it out all the time now. But luckily it's easy to set up. When I bought it I had attached it to a big board to keep from have to put screw in my table and boy am I glad i did Now all I have to do is get it and set it on top ANY table!!! If I had of attached it to the the other table (I no longer have room for) I would have been in a pickle and had to go back to tugging those BIG quilts i like to make through the machine again. I've done enough of that to know it's not an easy task. I don't guess I've ever made a small quilt other then the 2 baby quilt I made and I hand quilted one and did quilt as you go on the other. Now I do love making mini's. But I have to say when I make a bed quilt I make it BIG, real big! I have a hand quilting frame I use sometimes but mostly I like to machine quilt mine, because it takes me forever to finish one hand quilting.
Well, I did get started on my sister tumbling block lap quilt. It's my first ever lap quilt and Y-seams. I've always been a bit intimidated by Y-seams but I gave it a try and they aren't difficult at all. Then after making some of the blocks I thought how am I going to piece all these rows together. So had to see if I would be able to join those zig- zag rows together. I used the same method of pivoting as I did on the Y-seam and it went rather well and the seams lay nice and flat so I guess she'll get her tumbling block lap quilt after all. She choose the Metro Goes green fabric line we had seen when we went to Mariette to meet up with Some of our quilting friends form the board. They didn't have enough, so I thought maybe since we were soon going to the retreat and would have the chance to go to Keepsake Quiltshop I could find some there, but we didn't find it. As soon as I got home form the retreat I googled around to see if I could find some since I knew she loved it so much and she just didn't see anything else she liked as much. I was lucky enough to find it so I got them and some of the dots for the backing and strips for the binding.

Margw, Here's a pic of the block construction. It's pretty simple. Sew two 9" squares on the diagonal to make 2 big HST. Then just add a 3.5" square on opposite corners and sew on the diagonal. Here's what the block looks like. Then here's how I layed them out to get that top.

9 comments:

  1. Your coin top looks great!! It's way bigger than mine. Looks lovely on a bed. Do you have a backing picked out yet?

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  2. I just bought the tumbling blocks book and am going to give it a try too. I did an attic window mini for the Christmas swap, and agree the Y seams sound a lot more intimidating then they actually turned out to be. I am going to do mine all in batiks with sections of colors, well at least in my mind right now that is the plan! lol
    I love your quilts and bigger is always better.
    :)

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  3. I do love your scrap quilt, that is a great use of scraps. Your tumbling blocks are coming along very nicely too. How terrbile that the quilt top is lost! Maybe it will show up sometime...

    Have a great day!
    Kristie

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  4. I too would be upset with loosing that quilt top. I Love it!! Do you know the pattern name? (I know I should know, but am not good with that sort of thing.) Was the background color black? I love the bright colors. Take Care and keep up the good work!

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  5. Thank You, Thank You. Was not put together the way I had thought!!!

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  6. I love my tumbling block quilt. I hate it that you lost one of your quilts. Maybe it will show up after all.

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  7. Looks like you have been busy! I won't get to any sewing until next month..maybe. We are busy laying sub floors..ugh.

    Love Becky's quilt. I wouldn't give up on the "lost" quilt. I lost a very much loved lap quilt when I moved 5 years ago but it turned up on this last move!

    Haven't heard much on the GK lately. Guess they'll soon be getting excited about the holiday's.

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  8. I just hate it that you've misplace that lovely quilt top. Maybe, like Holee said, it'll turn up later. I hope you don't have to move again to find it.

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